“She appears quiet and subdued. The paradox: Raging storms twirl inside her.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry. — Frank Turner Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head. — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness. — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Look up, greet sparks of fire with salted eyes, For he’s a burning atmospheric sigh: One blaze of liquid flame on midnight… — Alan James Roll Copy Share Image
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“An artist is a performer on the canvas. A dancer with a paintbrush. A musician with the paint. A poet in each… — Melissa Regas Copy Share Image
“Keen winter stabs the breasts of May Whose crimson roses burst his frost, Ships tempest-tossed Will find a harbour in some bay,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Auden? Does he rhyme? I only like poetry that rhymes. All the best poets write in rhyme." "Really?" "Dr. Seuss and Shakespeare.… — Shiela Jane Copy Share Image
“I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest,… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“On Translating Eugene Onegin 1 What is translation? On a platter A poet's pale and glaring head, A parrot's screech, a monkey's… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal… Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us… — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume. — Grazia Deledda Copy Share Image
I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“I don't expect you to fight over me... But I do expect you to fight for me... for us.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.” — E. Millicent Sowerby Copy Share Image
Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.” — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
